Bee Honey Honeycomb : Document of performance art: Fieldwork, Installation, Performance

Hamada, Goji, 1944-

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  • Goji Hamada (born 1944 in Tsugaru) is a major figure in Japanese performance. He is continually creating new works and organizing events, including an annual festival and symposium in Kyoto. In 1992, he mounted a retrospective of performances and installations at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Art and has produced his performances in Berlin, Hamburg, Strasbourg, Paris, Barcelona and Nice.  He has collaborated with many Japanese and foreign performers and experimental artists across the globe, including Tetsuo Kogawa, Paul Panhuysen, etc.
    Over the last 30 years, Goji Hamada has refined and elaborated a complex personal mythology in which his own body is a site for the exploration of time and space, life and death, and allegorical memory. The body is a double-sided mirror, reflecting both the world outside and its inner nature. Hamada’s props are imbued with rich symbolism and include simple materials (paper, alcohol, honey), basic media (video, Polaroid, radio), and often animals (hands, rabbits, snakes, tortoises, frogs and, on one occasion, a six-meter shark).

  • 163 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm. #310324
  • Hamada, Goji, 1944-
  • Performance art — Western Australia
  • Performance art — Japan
  • Sheridan, Noel
  • Yamamota, Reiko

Additional Information

AuthorHamada, Goji, 1944-
Number of pages163
PublisherPICA Press, Perth WA
Year Published1994
Binding Type

Softcover

Book Condition

Near Fine

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